PM has confirmed plans to scrap regulations including on face masks and social distancing from 19 July
It has revealed what will happen from 19 July, if the decision is made to move to phase 4 of the Covid unlocking process. In brief, more or less every legal restriction will be lifted, all businesses will open, and mitigation measures such as mask wearing and social distancing will be left to people’s personal responsibility. The basis for the plan is that mass vaccination has sufficiently weakened the link between infection rates and severe illness and death so the country can “find a way new way of living with the virus”, according to No 10.
